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To ensure a viable validator node, you should ensure that your computer or VPS meets the following requirements.

## Software

### OS

Officially, the Union team only supports running the Union node on linux based operating systems.

## Hardware

:::note

These are only minimum requirements for running the Union node as a validator, you may need more powerful hardware depending on the expectations of your node.

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### Architecture

The Union team will only distribute binaries for x86_64-linux (x86) and aarch64-linux (arm) machines.

### Cores

**16** vCPUs or CPU cores.

### RAM

More than **64 GB** of RAM.

### Storage

At least **500 GB** of storage.
